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color=red><b>LISTS</b></font><p> <p><p><table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_c"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000093629/"><font size=-1>Niels Henrik Abel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1802</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/886/000096598/"><font size=-1>Maria Gaetana Agnesi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1718</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Instituzioni Analitiche</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/746/000087485/"><font size=-1>Archimedes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 290 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>211 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greatest of the ancient mathematicians</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000179555/"><font size=-1>Michael Atiyah</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atiyah-Singer index theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000031820/"><font size=-1>Charles Babbage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the <i>Difference Engine</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000141025/"><font size=-1>Thomas Bayes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1701</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bayes' theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000159299/"><font size=-1>Daniel Bernoulli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1782</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/831/000159354/"><font size=-1>Johann Bernoulli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1667</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1748</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>L'Hôpital's rule</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/593/000207969/"><font size=-1>Lipman Bers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Riemann surfaces</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000094774/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in precision astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000166428/"><font size=-1>George David Birkhoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Modern theory of dynamical systems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/806/000243077/"><font size=-1>David H. Blackwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bayesian statistics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000087578/"><font size=-1>Boethius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 470 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>524 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Consolation of Philosophy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000031730/"><font size=-1>George Boole</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1815</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of Boolean Algebra</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000101875/"><font size=-1>Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1787</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Theoria philosophiae naturalis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000208524/"><font size=-1>Satyendra Nath Bose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bose-Einstein condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/065/000100762/"><font size=-1>Pierre Bouguer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1758</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French photometrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/425/000164930/"><font size=-1>Nathaniel Bowditch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1773</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>American Practical Navigator</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000167822/"><font size=-1>Ira S. Bowen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Debunked nebulium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000179813/"><font size=-1>George Box</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Statistician at University of Wisconsin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000168036/"><font size=-1>Ernest W. Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Tables of the Motion of the Moon</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000087072/"><font size=-1>Georg Cantor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of set theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000107207/"><font size=-1>Girolamo Cardano</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1501</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1576</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>De Subtilitate</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/764/000082518/"><font size=-1>Lazare Carnot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1823</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Organizer for Victory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000031742/"><font size=-1>Lewis Carroll</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Alice in Wonderland</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000179892/"><font size=-1>Élie Cartan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spinor groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000179898/"><font size=-1>Henri Cartan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leader of the math Bourbakistes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/374/000087113/"><font size=-1>Augustin-Louis Cauchy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1789</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000202541/"><font size=-1>Alonzo Church</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/882/000093603/"><font size=-1>Marquis de Condorcet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1743</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1794</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French Enlightenment philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000082434/"><font size=-1>John Conway</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Game of Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000029951/"><font size=-1>Nicolaus Copernicus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1473</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1543</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heliocentrist, <i>De revolutionibus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000206593/"><font size=-1>Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Coriolis force</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000131105/"><font size=-1>Allan M. Cormack</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/"><font size=-1>Thomas George Cowling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cowling model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/374/000172855/"><font size=-1>Haskell Curry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Combinatory Logic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000087144/"><font size=-1>Jean le Rond d'Alembert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1717</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1783</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early work in partial differential equations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000168655/"><font size=-1>George Darwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000097146/"><font size=-1>Augustus De Morgan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>De Morgan's Laws</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/209/000168702/"><font size=-1>Willem de Sitter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Expanding space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/367/000087106/"><font size=-1>Richard Dedekind</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed theory of irrational numbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000024354/"><font size=-1>John Dee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1527</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1609</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician and mystic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/421/000118067/"><font size=-1>William Dembski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Intelligent Design proponent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000135817/"><font size=-1>W. Edwards Deming</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quality Control guru</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000087529/"><font size=-1>Democritus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 460 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 370 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early atomic theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000084819/"><font size=-1>René Descartes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1596</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1650</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Discours de la Méthode</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000262753/"><font size=-1>Persi Diaconis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Science of random numbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000104432/"><font size=-1>Diophantus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 3rd c. AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>fl. 3rd c. AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Arithmetica</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/023/000029933/"><font size=-1>Albrecht Dürer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engraver</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1471</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1528</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German Renaissance artist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000022901/"><font size=-1>Freeman Dyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000113693/"><font size=-1>José Echegaray</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nobel Prizewinning Spanish dramatist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000181823/"><font size=-1>Francis Edgeworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pure Theory of Taxation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000181825/"><font size=-1>Samuel Eilenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Category theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000024064/"><font size=-1>Taher Elgamal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/616/000169109/"><font size=-1>Robert Emden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar structure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000095427/"><font size=-1>Eratosthenes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>276 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>194 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First to measure the Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000032305/"><font size=-1>Paul Erdos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Loved only numbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/724/000087463/"><font size=-1>Euclid</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 365 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 275 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of geometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000096370/"><font size=-1>Eudoxus of Cnidus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 390 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 340 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Influential Greek mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000048810/"><font size=-1>Leonhard Euler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1707</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1783</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Elements of Euclid</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000196328/"><font size=-1>Hugh Everett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Many Worlds Theory of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000258318/"><font size=-1>Pierre Fatou</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Complex analytic dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/768/000087507/"><font size=-1>Pierre de Fermat</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Aug-1601</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1665</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fermat's Last Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000095637/"><font size=-1>Leonardo Fibonacci</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1175</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1250</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Liber Abacis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000196019/"><font size=-1>Bruno de Finetti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Subjective probability</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000196175/"><font size=-1>Ronald Fisher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analysis of variance and covariance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000087297/"><font size=-1>Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1768</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fourier series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/481/000202872/"><font size=-1>Maurice Fréchet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fréchet differential</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000179983/"><font size=-1>Gottlob Frege</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematical logician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000022633/"><font size=-1>Martin Gardner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematical games, <i>Scientific American</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000087102/"><font size=-1>Carl Friedrich Gauss</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Perhaps the greatest German mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000161261/"><font size=-1>J. Willard Gibbs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1839</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000091277/"><font size=-1>Kurt Gödel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/809/000114467/"><font size=-1>Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1645</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician, historian of the New World</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000136631/"><font size=-1>Ronald Graham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician, Computer Scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/593/000203981/"><font size=-1>Alexander Grothendieck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Grothendieck topologies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000101607/"><font size=-1>Jacques-Salomon Hadamard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prime number theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000101648/"><font size=-1>Sir William Rowan Hamilton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1805</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of Quaternions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000159381/"><font size=-1>G. H. Hardy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Mathematician's Apology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000100355/"><font size=-1>Herbert A. Hauptman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray diffraction studies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000103589/"><font size=-1>Hero of Alexandria</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 10 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 70 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Metrica</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000086793/"><font size=-1>John Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered many moons of Saturn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000087474/"><font size=-1>David Hilbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hilbert Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000169840/"><font size=-1>George W. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000103533/"><font size=-1>Hipparchus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 190 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 120 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000098366/"><font size=-1>Grace Murray Hopper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computer programming pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000087071/"><font size=-1>Christiaan Huygens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1629</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wave theory of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000178875/"><font size=-1>Kiyoshi Ito</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ito Calculus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000097497/"><font size=-1>Sir James Ivory</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ivory's Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/920/000093641/"><font size=-1>Karl Gustav Jacobi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1804</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated elliptical functions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000204478/"><font size=-1>James H. Jeans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continuous creation theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000101567/"><font size=-1>William Stanley Jevons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Theory of Political Economy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000108728/"><font size=-1>Gaston Julia</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Creator of the Julia Sets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/402/000024330/"><font size=-1>Ted Kaczynski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Criminal</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Unabomber</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000160233/"><font size=-1>Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Linear programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000170217/"><font size=-1>Theodore von Kármán</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kármán vortices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/342/000086084/"><font size=-1>Johannes Kepler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1571</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1630</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Laws of Planetary Motion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000170382/"><font size=-1>Roy Kerr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rotating black holes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/043/000031947/"><font size=-1>Omar Khayyam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1048</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1131</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Rubaiyat</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000170412/"><font size=-1>Tom Kibble</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Zurek-Kibble theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000087119/"><font size=-1>Joseph-Louis Lagrange</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mécanique Analytique</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000096366/"><font size=-1>Johann Heinrich Lambert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pyrometrie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000170529/"><font size=-1>Jonathan Homer Lane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000031778/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Simon Laplace</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Mar-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Traité du Mécanique Céleste</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000093612/"><font size=-1>Adrien-Marie Legendre</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1752</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1833</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Traité des Fonctions Elliptiques</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000087405/"><font size=-1>Gottfried Leibniz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1646</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1716</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of calculus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/519/000253757/"><font size=-1>Tom Leighton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-founder of Akamai</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000031119/"><font size=-1>Tullio Levi-Civita</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explored tensor calculus and PDE's</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000253770/"><font size=-1>Daniel Lewin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000170326/"><font size=-1>Edward Lorenz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chaos theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/946/000023877/"><font size=-1>Ada Lovelace</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1815</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000160927/"><font size=-1>Jan Lukasiewicz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented Reverse Polish Notation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000108155/"><font size=-1>Szolem Mandelbrojt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French Mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000022686/"><font size=-1>Benoit Mandelbrot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fractal mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000095722/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sur la figure de la terre</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000171181/"><font size=-1>Kurt Mendelssohn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cryogenics and pyramids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/576/000107255/"><font size=-1>Marin Mersenne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1588</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1648</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>L'Harmonie universelle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000171327/"><font size=-1>E. Arthur Milne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kinematic relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000171349/"><font size=-1>Hermann Minkowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Minkowski space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000022128/"><font size=-1>Leon Mirsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Transversal Theory</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000206729/"><font size=-1>August Möbius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Möbius strip</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000171400/"><font size=-1>Keith Moffatt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/441/000097150/"><font size=-1>Abraham de Moivre</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1667</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1754</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Doctrine of Chances</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000173291/"><font size=-1>Charlotte E. Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Technetium in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/276/000023207/"><font size=-1>John Nash</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Schizophrenic game theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000024792/"><font size=-1>Isaac Newton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1643</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1727</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the clockwork universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000051079/"><font size=-1>Jean Nicholas Nicollet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Explorer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Surveyor of the Mississippi basin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000163972/"><font size=-1>貀stein Ore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ring theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/591/000087330/"><font size=-1>William Oughtred</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1574</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1660</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the slide rule</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/292/000171776/"><font size=-1>Drazen Pantic</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Micromedia activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000097743/"><font size=-1>Seymour Papert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Programming language LOGO</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000024904/"><font size=-1>Blaise Pascal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1623</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1662</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>French thinker and mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000214182/"><font size=-1>John Allen Paulos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Innumeracy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000097376/"><font size=-1>George Peacock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Treatise on Algebra</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000087108/"><font size=-1>Giuseppe Peano</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infinitesimal calculus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000165234/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Peirce</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Idempotent and nilpotent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000179977/"><font size=-1>Charles Sanders Peirce</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1839</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Pragmatism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/277/000024205/"><font size=-1>Roger Penrose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of cosmic censorship</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000118481/"><font size=-1>Grigori Perelman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proved the Poincaré conjecture</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000030021/"><font size=-1>Clifford A. Pickover</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician and prolific author</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000196012/"><font size=-1>Mario Pieri</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Italian geometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000095641/"><font size=-1>John Playfair</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1748</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Huttonian Theory of the Earth</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000172334/"><font size=-1>Julius Plücker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analytical geometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/358/000087097/"><font size=-1>Henri Poincaré</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Poincaré Conjecture</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/857/000093578/"><font size=-1>Siméon-Denis Poisson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1781</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Poisson distribution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000172422/"><font size=-1>Joseph Proudman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tidal currents</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000029945/"><font size=-1>Ptolemy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 87 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 150 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Egyptian geographer and astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000029921/"><font size=-1>Hilary Putnam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jul-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Philosophy of Mind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/773/000087512/"><font size=-1>Pythagoras</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 580 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 500 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pythagorean Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000240855/"><font size=-1>Srinivasa Ramanujan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Self-educated mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/"><font size=-1>Lord Rayleigh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Why the sky is blue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000172613/"><font size=-1>Martin Rees</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000172594/"><font size=-1>Eric Reissner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Reissner shear-deformation plate theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/182/000177648/"><font size=-1>Franz Reuleaux</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of modern kinematics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000087098/"><font size=-1>Bernhard Riemann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1826</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Topologist, also <i>Riemann Hypothesis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000172653/"><font size=-1>David Rittenhouse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1732</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/160/000118803/"><font size=-1>Ron Rivest</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The R in RSA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000096606/"><font size=-1>Gilles Personne de Roberval</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1602</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1675</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geometry of curves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000026447/"><font size=-1>Erno Rubik</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rubik's Cube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/716/000023647/"><font size=-1>Rudy Rucker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Author of <i>Wetware</i> series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000044822/"><font size=-1>Bertrand Russell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician, atheist, and social critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000099651/"><font size=-1>Abdus Salam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000159350/"><font size=-1>Reinhard Selten</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Game theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/515/000166017/"><font size=-1>Adi Shamir</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The S in RSA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000023865/"><font size=-1>Claude Shannon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in information theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000030016/"><font size=-1>Waclaw Sierpinski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sierpinski's gasket</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/085/000132686/"><font size=-1>James Simons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Renaissance Technologies hedge fund</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/096/000179556/"><font size=-1>Isadore Singer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atiyah-Singer index theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000096607/"><font size=-1>Simon Stevin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1548</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1620</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of hydrostatics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000173582/"><font size=-1>Ian Stewart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catastrophe theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/125/000097831/"><font size=-1>James Stirling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1692</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1770</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Methodus differentialis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000097837/"><font size=-1>George Gabriel Stokes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamicist, optic waves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/236/000097942/"><font size=-1>Charles François Sturm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sturm's Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000098060/"><font size=-1>James Joseph Sylvester</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied finite analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000098100/"><font size=-1>Peter Guthrie Tait</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Treatise on Quaternions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000172934/"><font size=-1>Terence Tao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prolific math prodigy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/383/000113044/"><font size=-1>Alfred Tarski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tarski's indefinability theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/440/000098146/"><font size=-1>Niccolò Tartaglia</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1499</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1557</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inaugurated science of Ballistics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000098166/"><font size=-1>Brook Taylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Calculus of Finite Differences</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000159305/"><font size=-1>D'Arcy Thompson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On Growth and Form</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/605/000087344/"><font size=-1>Evangelista Torricelli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1647</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the barometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000173894/"><font size=-1>John Townsend</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron's charge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000136630/"><font size=-1>Paul Turan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hungarian mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/952/000023883/"><font size=-1>Alan Turing</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computing pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/191/000208564/"><font size=-1>Petr Ufimtsev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physical Theory of Diffraction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000275320/"><font size=-1>John Venn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Venn diagrams</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000023882/"><font size=-1>John von Neumann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000162624/"><font size=-1>Georgy Voronoy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Voronoi diagram</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000087338/"><font size=-1>John Wallis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1703</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Arithmetica Infinitorum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/057/000206436/"><font size=-1>James Craig Watson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Claimed to discover the planet Vulcan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000107145/"><font size=-1>William Whiston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1667</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1752</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Apostolical Constitutions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000032177/"><font size=-1>Alfred North Whitehead</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metaphysical mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000103917/"><font size=-1>Norbert Wiener</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Cybernetics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000062297/"><font size=-1>Andrew Wiles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proved Fermat's Last Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000022259/"><font size=-1>Stephen Wolfram</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Creator of <i>Mathematica</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000026675/"><font size=-1>Iannis Xenakis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Composer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Avant-garde composer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000165467/"><font size=-1>Robert J. 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